Gorr the Golden Gorilla is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe

Marvel Universe

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Publication history

Gorr first appeared in Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

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#171-175 (June-October 1976), and was created by Roy Thomas

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 and George Pérez

George Pérez

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The character subsequently appears in Marvel Two-in-One #63 (May 1980), and Quasar #14-16 (September-November 1990).

Fictional character biography

Gorr is a golden-colored gorilla given human intelligence and greatly increased strength by the High Evolutionary

High Evolutionary

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Fearing that Galactus

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 was about to destroy his creation, Counter-Earth

Counter-Earth (comics)

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, the High Evolutionary created Gorr and sent him to Earth to seek the aid of the Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...

. However, when he arrived on Earth, Gorr became inexplicably mutated into a King Kong-sized monstrosity and went on a rampage through Manhattan, climbing to the top of the Chrysler Building

Chrysler Building

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. When the Fantastic Four intervened, Gorr duped them into coming aboard his ship and transported them to Counter-Earth.

The Fantastic Four, High Evolutionary, and Gorr were unable to convince Galactus not to destroy Counter-Earth, though Galactus challenged them to find a replacement within 48 hours. Gorr and the Human Torch

Human Torch

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 found an Earth-like planet, which turned out to be inhabited by Skrull

Skrull

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s. The Skrulls abandoned the planet after an altercation with Gorr, leaving the planet uninhabited and thus worthless to Galactus. Ultimately, the Impossible Man

Impossible Man

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 convinced Galactus to devour his own planet of Poppup instead. Gorr remained with the High Evolutionary as a servant.

Much later, Gorr became a prisoner/research project of the Stranger

Stranger (comics)

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, held captive on his laboratory world. When the Overmind

Overmind (comics)

-Fictional character biography:The Overmind is an alien belonging to the Eternals of Eyung, and was born uncounted millennia ago on the planet Eyung . Grom acted as one of their warlords, leading massacres of entire species. He was also the reigning champion in their gladiatorial arenas...

attacked the Stranger, he freed the Stranger's captives, including Gorr, who escaped.